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The Rivers State Police Command has arrested three suspects, including a herbalist linked to the beheading of a nine-year-old boy, Destiny Peter, who went missing in the Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State. Spokesman for the state police command, ...

  Manchester City are set to be without Kevin De Bruyne for their next three games after the Belgian midfielder tested positive for Covid-19. The 30-year-old playmaker has been away on World Cup qualifying duty with his country, helping Roberto ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) recorded 61 Covid-19 cases Thursday, with no related deaths. The new infections jacked cumulative cases to 213,464, with 206,292 discharged. The 61 infections marked a decline from 82 reported on Wednesday. Nine states ...

  Oyo State Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Dr. Wasiu Olatunbosun has said that the Seyi Makinde led administration has paid over N14 billion on gratuities, while about 5,000 beneficiaries have benefited from the exercise. Dr. Olatubosun said this ...

President Joe Biden on Friday wrote the United States Senate to convey his decision to temporarily transfer the powers and duties of his office to Vice President Kamala Harris as he undergoes a routine surgery which will require sedation. In ...

The leader of markets in Lagos, Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, has said that the popular Oyingbo Market in Lagos was shut down due to its deplorable state and not due to traders’ failure to pay her N5 million bribe. Traders at the ...

A Lagos-based rights attorney, Festus Ogun, has filed a freedom of information (FOI) request to Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun state, asking for the immediate release the state’s #EndSARS panel report. In the FOI dated November 18, 2021, the lawyer ...

Davido has said he might be giving out all the over N180m he receieved from his friends and fans. The last update the singer gave on the donations shows he has receieved the sum of N184,104,565.73 in total. Recall the ...

A group of Igbo leaders Friday met with President Muhammadu Buhari during which they asked for the release of Nnamdi Kanu. Mr Kanu, leader of the outlawed separatist group, IPOB, is being detained and prosecuted on treason charges. Details of ...

The Nigerian DJ who reportedly drowned at a Lagos beach yesterday has been found alive. Tho, her sister, Stella Besin also took to social media this afternoon to demand for a miracle and even claimed people watched her sister drown, ...

Below are photos from freshers induction ceremony of Theater Arts students of Rivers State University.   The pictures were shared online yesterday.     

President Joe Biden on Friday wrote the United States Senate to convey his decision to temporarily transfer the powers and duties of his office to Vice President Kamala Harris as he undergoes a routine surgery which will require sedation. In ...

Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, has responded to criticisms that trailed the graduation of Temilorun Olanipekun, son of the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Edward Olanipekun. Temilorun, who graduated from Oxford University, was pictured with his parents on Thursday, causing many to ask if ...

Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, said doctors told him that his brother, Sani, would die in an hour, and that he died when it was time, “watching the life support machine going down until it stopped working.” Dangote stated ...

A fast rising Nigerian Disc Jockey, DJ Michelle has reportedly died. She reportedly drowned at the beach yesterday. A lof of her followers and friends on social media have been mourning her shocking death. According to one of her friends, ...

Billionaire Folorunso Alakija has said men also needs as much support as women get in the world. The business woman and philanthropist stated this today, November 19, as she joins the rest of the world to celebrate International Men’s Day. ...

Reno Omokri has stepped into the Davido donation and how many celebrities have jumped on the challenge and FLOPPED, None have been able to show the balance of the new account they just opened to receieve donations from friends and ...

A 56 year-old man, Festus James, who claimed to be a prophet, has confessed to have r*ped an eight-month pregnant lady at Agbabu village near Ore in Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State. James confessed while being paraded with ...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has revealed that 46 million Nigerians still defecate in the open. This report comes a week after Vice President Yemi Osinbajo called for effective collaboration among the three tiers of government and the private ...

The current world record-holder in the men’s 65kg weightlifting category, Paul Kehinde, aka Olumi Agberin, is dead. Kehinde was also a former world number 1 Para Powerlifter, Olympic Gold medallist and Commonwealth Games Champion. Kehinde died on Thursday after a ...

At least 53 people were killed in a weekend attack on a gendarmerie post in Burkina Faso, an updated government toll has shown. The update came as President Roch Kabore responded to a public outcry over the worst strike on ...

Fire has erupted at Pinewood film studios, in Iver Heath, England, with emergency services rushing to the scene of the incident. The blaze sent huge plumes of smoke into the air above the site in Slough, Berkshire, reports The Sun. ...

A member of the Lagos Judicial Panel on #EndSARS, Ebun-Olu Addegboruwa, said members are now targets of persecution following their bombshell report. The report which confirmed a massacre of defenceless young Nigerians by the army and police on 20 October ...

Two cars were burnt on Thursday night in Ibadan, when a fully loaded petrol tanker, went up in flames. According to an eyewitness, Mr. James Oladeji, a commercial tricycle operator, the incident occurred at Agodi area of Ibadan, on Total ...

A Nigerian man in the UK, simply identified as Victor with the Twitter name; @stevensunflash, has called out UPS for not delivery an alleged right package. Accoridng to Victor, he had sent a MacBook Pro worth N700,000 from London to ...